18 Jul 2018
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  1. Balancing the visual components of your picture is fine, but try to avoid too much symmetry. This tends to detract from the subject matter and can split the picture into distinct halves.
  2. Keep compositions simple with one main focal point or dominant point of emphasis.
  3. Always check for unwanted background clutter and highlights before you release the shutter.
  4. Give as much attention to how the background is going to look in your finished picture as you would your main subject and make backgrounds work hard for you by helping to make the main subject really stand out.
  5. Learn to see the subjects in your viewfinder in terms of their shapes and forms, forgetting their names and identities.
  6. Give subjects room to breathe in the frame. Frame-filling shots and extreme close-ups can be very powerful, but they do not reveal important clues about a subject’s lifestyle and habitat.
  7. You can use pattern, shapes and lines to impose a sense of formality and stability to pictures of the natural world.
  8. Don’t be afraid to use the rule of thirds as a general guide to getting the proportions right in your picture.
  9. Previsualize wildlife pictures – using your mind’s eye like an artist’s sketchbook to map out ideas for the pictures you’d like to create.
  10. Bear in mind you can improve some compositions at the processing stage when shooting digitally by cropping images.

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